The series centers around a tough Long Island divorcee who lands a job as a therapist for a professional football team. Her career begins to take off when athletes, musicians, politicians and other celebrities start to request her tough love therapy. She must learn to balance her new career with being a single mother.
Inspired by a true story, this series is on paper pretty good. A well educated PhD. psychologist, hypnotherapist, behavioral therapist, etc...who put her career on the back burner for family and husband, just to find out that her husband of 17years has been cheating on her. When divorce papers are filed he tries to take everything to avoid paying for anything. Now she's a single mother of 2 with a mother who is a compulsive gambler. After a chance meeting with a "Trainer" for a professional football team, the Dr. is given the chance to treat one of the teams wide receivers who can't seem to catch the ball anymore.
You see where this is going...she gets paid, fixes the player, an starts to deal with her kids and family issues. Meanwhile she has found a niche working with celebrities and other top athletes, etc...
On paper this is a good show. On TV, it's an episodic problem fixer, with no real reason to watch. I know many USA shows are like that...but they have some other hook. There isn't one here. The lead actress, who has been a character actor on other shows, is a bit out of her comfort zone. I will say at times she pulls the whole Dr. Psychologist off....but everything else is a bit weak. This show wants you to feel for the characters but there isn't any meat to them. The Football player (TK), perhaps a T.O. rip off...is stereotypical, in being so is less than believable.
There are a few redeeming parts to this show one being a "fixer" associated with the football team. If they made a show about him and his means of "fixing" things ...then you'd have a show. He seems like he could be an interesting character and part of the show. That is if I were to continue to watch it. I don't think I will. NOT a bad show, just not good enough to hook me in or keep me hooked even if I were to give it another shot, which is unfortunate since it's lead in is Royal Pains which is a great show.
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